December | 2009 | voxygen.net

From the monthly archives: December 2009

New Year’s Eve ~ some goals

By ~LS~ On December 31, 2009 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Goals

Top 20 off the beaten path movies of the 2000s

By ~LS~ On December 31, 2009 · Add Comment · In Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Movies, Pop Culture

These are not my top ten movies of the decade. I don’t think I could pick such a list. I’m glad it’s not a job requirement. The following list includes movies that I thought were different and interesting. Not all were critically acclaimed, either. Still, something about each one stuck with me over the decade. I’m an action
pic junkie and some of these are action pics, but they are not your standard shoot ‘em up style. They have something unique about them. Not all the films listed here were overlooked, but many were. I did not include major movies. The list is in no particular order.

1. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

A strange man with an amazing sense of smell learns how to make perfume and then murders women in search of the elusive perfect scent. It’s a disturbing, dirty, compelling movie. Alan [...]

Read Full Article →

The Lady Doctor

By ~LS~ On December 30, 2009 · Add Comment · In Feminism and tagged Tagged With: Baton Rouge, Feminism, Gratitudes, Sexism

Over Thanksgiving I had a conversation with my mother-in-law about women doctors. She explained that she had to see a woman eye doctor because her regular doctor was unavailable and that this made her uncomfortable. I recognize that some people are uncomfortable with women doctors even today. Comfort with a doctor is an emotional thing, not something you can necessarily address rationally. I expect that with each generation this discomfort will lessen. Still, when I play the very old doctor riddle with my students in class, most can’t solve it. Here’s the riddle:

A man and his son were in a car and had an accident on the highway. The boy was critically injured and rushed to the hospital. Doctors are not allowed to work on their family. After seeing the boy in the emergency room, the doctor said, “I can’t work on this child. He’s my son!”

The answers [...]

Read Full Article →

Mix tape obsolescence

By ~LS~ On December 29, 2009 · Add Comment · In Pop Culture, Technology, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Consumption, Media Ecology, Music, Pop Culture, Technoculture

As the decade draws to a close, many commentators are remarking on the demise of various technologies. I am sometimes rueful and sometimes relieved by the disappearance of the technologies, of their associated objects and habits.

Think of letter writing. Often, the only clues to women’s history or insights into the thoughts and emotions of previous generations lie in their letters. Writing letters was a habitus, a way of being and doing. Today, our digital documentation is excessive and often thin and shallow. A constant stream of 140 characters doesn’t seem to me to capture the nuances of a traditional letter. I suppose that 19th century upper-class women writing about their tea service (see Veblen on spoons; there is no spoon?) could be considered shallow too. Both Twitter and high tea are reflections in “taste” in its fullest sense of the [...]

Read Full Article →

100 posts in 2009? Can I do it?

By ~LS~ On December 29, 2009 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Blogging

Read Full Article →

The confusing magic of peeling hard-boiled eggs

By ~LS~ On December 27, 2009 · Add Comment · In Fun Facts and tagged Tagged With: Food

Ages ago I had a dispute with a friend over peeling hard-boiled eggs. She swore by her mother’s wisdom that the freshest eggs were the easiest to peel. I swore by my grandmother’s wisdom that cold water does the trick. The debate was heated and emotional, probably due to our investment in our maternal relatives’ kitchen knowledge. Food and family, as we know, is a potent combination.

So, I was boiling eggs this morning, and they came out sort of eh. I recalled my disagreement and decided to turn to the eggsperts (lame pun, I know).

First, “hard-boiled egg” is a misnomer according to IncredibleEgg.org. I think it’s because you’re not supposed to actually boil the egg. The proper name is “hard cooked.”

Everything behind what makes an egg peelable is scientifically explained on a couple of websites (Khymos, a molecular [...]

Read Full Article →

Page 1 of 312 3 »

New Year’s Eve ~ some goals

Top 20 off the beaten path movies of the 2000s

The Lady Doctor

Mix tape obsolescence

100 posts in 2009? Can I do it?

The confusing magic of peeling hard-boiled eggs

Categories

Archives

Blogroll

Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Meta

Catch me if you can!

New Year’s Eve ~ some goals

Top 20 off the beaten path movies of the 2000s

The Lady Doctor

Mix tape obsolescence

100 posts in 2009? Can I do it?

The confusing magic of peeling hard-boiled eggs

Categories

Archives

Tags

Blogroll

Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Meta

Catch me if you can!